The Sweeney (2012 film)

The Sweeney is a 2012 British action drama film, inspired by the 1970s The Sweeney, the British television police drama of the same name, but set in contemporary London. Directed and written by Nick Love, and cowritten by John Hodge, it is based on the characters created by Ian Kennedy Martin. It stars Ray Winstone as Jack Regan, Ben Drew as George Carter and Damian Lewis as Frank Haskins, with Hayley Atwell and Steven Mackintosh. The story focuses on two members of the Flying Squad, a branch of the Metropolitan Police. The Squads purpose is to investigate commercial armed robberies, along with the prevention and investigation of other serious armed crime. The title is derived from Sweeney Todd, which is Cockney rhyming slang for Flying Squad. The film was released onSeptember 2012.

Regan receives information about a planned robbery on a private bank, but he has to cease surveillance when an armed robbery at an insignificant jewellers places 200,000 of jewellery in the hands of a dangerous criminal, and one civilian dead. Regan suspects that his longtime adversary Francis Allen Paul Anderson is responsible, but cannot contradict Allens alibi that he was out of the country. After evidence links violent Serbian criminal Makin Trebolt Kevin Michaels to the crime Regan is forced to release Allen.When the private bank is robbed the Flying Squad arrives in time to confront the heavily armed robbers, against the orders of their boss Detective Chief Inspector Frank Haskins Damian Lewis. After a long chase and shootout the robbers escape, with Makin deliberately shooting Nancy dead in front of an incapacitated Regan. A grieving Inspector Lewis uses the shootout as justification to suspend the entire Flying Squad. Determined, Regan obtains a fake badge and illegal weapon and interrogates a local thug, who unexpectedly confesses that Allen paid him to fake his alibi. Before he can share this information with Carter, Regan is arrested and jailed. ........

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